*290 On the Culture of Celery. 
roots ; so that when they are planted, the trenches are le\'el with the 
surface: by which means the plants acquire more strength than by 
being planted in hollow trenches, as practised by most gardeners. 
Great care should be used in taking up the plants, Avhich should be 
done with a trowel, permitting as much earth to remain with the roots 
as possible, and planting them immediately into the dung, from 8 to 9 
inches apart. 
The ground most proper for planting Celery is a strong soil, havino- 
a clay bottom, whereby the plants are kept cooler than upon a sandy 
soil. 
I am. Gentlemen, 
Yoiu- obe<lient humble Servant, 
October 15, 1831. Constantine Mackay. 
Article II. — Oh the Culture of Celery. By J. M of 
Penwortham, Lancashire. 
Gentlemen, 
As you solicit contributions, however trifling, I forthwith 
send you my method of cultivating Celery, which, if you think worth 
a place in your Register, I shall feel obliged by its insertion. 
About the first week in March, I take a large flower-pot, about 
thirteen inches diameter, and about nine inches deep, and fill it with 
soil, composed of one-half black peat, (commonly called bog-soil,) 
one-fourth of leaf mould, and one-fourth of fresh loam ; this compost 
should be put together six months before it is used, and be turned 
twice, at least, durmg the six months. The pot being filled to within 
an inch of the rim, I sow the seeds, covering them with the same sort 
of soil, sifted. I then place the pot in a cucumber-frame; the tem- 
perature of which is about KO degi-ees of Farenheit's thermometer. 
As the plants come up, I raise the pot to within three or four inches 
of the glass, otherwise they would become very weak; observing at 
the same time to place the pot as near as possible to that part of the 
frame where air is admitted. When the plants have made four leaves 
each, 1 take a box, about three feet and a half long, thirteen inches 
wide, and six inches deep, and fill it to the depth of four inches with 
rotten dung from an old hot-bed, \vhich ^'as composed of leaves and 
stable-dung in equal parts ; I then fill the remaining part of the box 
with the above mentioned soil, and select from the seed-pot such of 
the plants as are short and stiiF, and prick them out in the box, at 
the distance of three inches each way I place the box in a vinery, 
where the heat is Q5 or 70 degrees, shading them from the sun till 
they have made fresh roots, and supply them fi-eely with water. As 
the plants advance in growth I give them more air, till about the last 
